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Caught in a mosh pit meme2/12/2024 Hirst got the idea to go to the theater in suits from TikTokers, who suggested pulling off the stunt but had not posted videos actually doing it at the time. It’s a good movie, and it brought back the memories of watching the ‘Despicable Me’ movies with my family.” The story behind the video I didn’t mind having to go and watch the 1½ hours to do the TikTok. "I grew up watching all the ‘Despicable Me’ movies. “I think one of the reasons” it has done so well “is the nostalgia," he said. Hirst, who was about 6 years old when "Despicable Me" came out in 2010, said he thinks the trend is likely to have resonated with others because it tapped into the nostalgia Gen Z has for the franchise, which they grew up with. Some videos also show the groups posing with steeple hands, the gesture made by Felonius Gru, the protagonist of the "Despicable Me" franchise (voiced by Steve Carell). As in Hirst’s video, many of the "Gentleminions" TikTok videos showcase groups wearing suits flocking to the movies, with the song “Rich Minion” by the rapper Yeat, which appears on the film’s soundtrack, playing in the background. Now, around the globe, people have been spotting "Gentleminions" at theaters. As of Wednesday afternoon, his TikTok, which features him attending the film in suits with his friends, had amassed more than 36.6 million views and more than 8.7 million likes. Once thought of as the cringiest content on the internet, the Minions from the “Despicable Me” franchise have been reclaimed by Gen Z after videos like Hirst’s have spread across TikTok. ![]() “I think it was a really great promotion for the minions.” To learn more, see the privacy policy.“I think the trend would’ve happened with or without me, but I think our TikTok made it more viral than it would’ve been,” Hirst, 18, said in an interview. Please note that Urban Thesaurus uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: and you might like to check out the growing collection of curated slang words for different topics over at Slangpedia. There is still lots of work to be done to get this slang thesaurus to give consistently good results, but I think it's at the stage where it could be useful to people, which is why I released it. ![]() Please also note that due to the nature of the internet (and especially UD), there will often be many terrible and offensive terms in the results. Or you might try boyfriend or girlfriend to get words that can mean either one of these (e.g. The search algorithm handles phrases and strings of words quite well, so for example if you want words that are related to lol and rofl you can type in lol rofl and it should give you a pile of related slang terms. The higher the terms are in the list, the more likely that they're relevant to the word or phrase that you searched for. Note that this thesaurus is not in any way affiliated with Urban Dictionary.ĭue to the way the algorithm works, the thesaurus gives you mostly related slang words, rather than exact synonyms. The official Urban Dictionary API is used to show the hover-definitions. ![]() ![]() These indexes are then used to find usage correlations between slang terms. The Urban Thesaurus was created by indexing millions of different slang terms which are defined on sites like Urban Dictionary.
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